Development and validation of the social media perception scale for preservice physical education teachers

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Fangfei Li¹  Zhihua Yin¹  Mingzhu Sun²  Yue Xu³  Zhen Guo⁴  Bo Liu⁴ 

[1] College of Physical Education and Health, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China;Department of Physical Education Teaching, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China;Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland;College of Physical Education and Health, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China;Division of Sports Science and Physical Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;

关键词: preservice physical education teachers;    social media;    perception;    scale development;    exploratory factor analysis;    confirmatory factor analysis;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1179814

 received in 2023-03-04, accepted in 2023-04-05,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundSocial media has become a mainstay of preservice physical education teachers’ professional development. However, previous studies have been dominated by qualitative research, and there is still a lack of quantitative research based on samples from eastern countries. The objective of this study is to develop and validate of the Social Media Perception Scale for Preservice Physical Education teachers (SMPS-PPE).MethodItems of questionnaire created from 70 concepts of the perception model described in our previous study. Questionnaire survey was used to collect quantitative data from a sample of 977 preservice physical education teachers through surveys. We analyzed the data using SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 24.0, conducting item analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to examine the data.ResultsSMPS-PPE consists of 26 items grouped into three factors: value perception, risk perception, and overall perception. Our findings indicate that SMPS-PPE has acceptable content validity, internal structure validity, and internal consistency.ConclusionSMPS-PPE is a reliable and valid measurement to evaluate social media perception among preservice physical education teachers. Future studies should include larger and more diverse teacher samples to enhance generalizability. The SMPS-PPE should also be modified to better cater to the specific requirements of school teachers and university-based teacher educators in the field of physical education.

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